get to the point

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To get to the point is to say the important thing without delay. Stop circling, and say it.

It is usually an instruction and rarely a polite one, since telling somebody to get to the point says they have wasted your time already. The related noun is the point, meaning the essential thing, and being beside the point means irrelevant. Getting straight to the point is what a well-organised person does, and it is one of the commonest pieces of advice about writing.

Definitions of get to the point

1phraseget to the pointTo say the most important thing without unnecessary delay.B1
“I wish he would get to the point.”

Practised in Idioms, A Man Called Ove

First appears in chapter 30 of A Man Called Ove.

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get to the point

phraseB1Not compared — the two pools are counted one word at a time, so a phrase has no score

To get to the point is to say the important thing without delay. Stop circling, and say it.

Definitions of get to the point

1phraseget to the pointTo say the most important thing without unnecessary delay.B1
“I wish he would get to the point.”

Practised in Idioms, A Man Called Ove

First appears in chapter 30 of A Man Called Ove.

Practise this word